Corset and method of forming same



H. A. COLI EY. CORSET AND METHOD OF FORMING S AME.

APPLICATION 'FILED 'OCT. 25; I920.

. Patented Apia .25, 1922,

HARRY A. COLLEY, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AssIGNoR '10 FROLASET oonsncr GOMPAN'Y, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION or MICHIGAN.

CORSET AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented ,gkpr, 19,22

Application filed October 25, 1920. SeriaI No. 419,208.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY A. CoLLEY, a

citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets and v Methods of Forming Same, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a corset and it is the object of the invention to provide in a simple and novel manner, for flaring the quired to variable flare when applied to the corset;

Figure 4 is avision similar to Figure 3 showing the fabric stitched together. y

In these views the [reference character A designates a corset, the waist line of which is indicated at A. The portion ofthe garment above the waist line is formed by a strip B, preferably elastic which is stitched tothe main body of the garment along the line Aand is required to flare to conform to the curvature of the body above the waist line. This curvature varies at different circumferential points of the body and it is desirable to correspondingly vary'the-flare of the strip 'B." To accomplish this result,

' said strip B, prior to attachment thereof to the body of the garment, has a plurality of V-shaped incisions extended from one edge thereof, as indicated at C C G in Figure 3,

the angle of said incisions being'more or less acute according as the desired amount of flareis large or small. "The edgesof these, incisions are then stitched together as is i -j' shown in Figure 4 and the desired flare is imparted to the strip due to theresulting difi'erence between thejlengths of the two edges of the strip. Finally the strip-B is stitched to the edge of the garment along its shortened edge; Thus, in a very simple manner, the necessary vflare is imparted to the upper portion of the garment, and is di-' vcrsified at circumferentially spaced points of the garment to properly conform to the Z body of the wearer. It will be understood that the described invention is not limited in its application to a corset but may be applied to any garment requiring a diversified flare.

W hat I claim as my invention is+ 1. A garment having a flaring marginal portion formed separately from the main body of the garment and secured alongrone edge of'said main body, said marginal por i being seamed transversely of said edge and saidedge being variably shortened by said seams. 1 p

2. The method of forming a garment with a flaring marginal portion consisting in eX-V tending aplurallty' of V-shaped incisions into said marginal portion from one edge thereof, while said portion is separated from the body of the garment, securing together the edges of each V-shaped incision and at-"' taching said portion to the body of the garment' along the shortened edge thus pro- "duced.

3. The method of variably flaringa pon, tion of a garmentconsisting in extending a plurality of-V-shaped incisions into :one edge of a strip of material, forming the angle of said incisions more or less acute according as a large or small degree of fiare'is'desired,

stitching together the opposed edges'of'each incision" and securing the shortened edge thus produced to the bodyof the garment.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my si ature.

V HARRY A. COL EY 

